India Digest: Differences Within Govt on Engaging Hazare

Here is a roundup of news from Indian newspapers, news wires and Web sites on Friday, August 19, 2011. The Wall Street Journal has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Differences Within Govt on Engaging Hazare: As Ramlila Maidan is spruced up for Anna Hazare’s protest fast from Friday, the internal security establishment is at odds with the UPA leadership over how to handle the agitation as the social activist insists that his team’s version of the Lokpal Bill be turned into law. (Source: Hindustan Times)

Infosys Chairman Narayana Murthy Calls It a Day: The man who started it all, Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, who retires from the company this weekend, will go down in the annals of Indian business history as a champion entrepreneur, a man who connected Bangalore to Boston, a flag bearer for corporate governance, a visionary leader. (Source: The Times of India)

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After PM Council, Plan Panel Warns: Need Political Will for 9% Growth: Soon after the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council said the government has lost policy focus, the Planning Commission has warned that the government cannot adopt a “business as usual” approach and must show “political will” to achieve an “ambitious” 9 per cent growth target set by it for the next five years. (Source: The Indian Express)

Rural India Hits Speed Dial on Road to Mobility: Rural India is hooked — to the mobile phone — so much so that it has overtaken urban India on number of subscribers as well as active connections, reveals ‘India Mobile 2011’, a Juxt Consult survey exclusive to FE. (Source: The Financial Express)

Indian Bowlers Disappoint on Truncated Day: Asked to bowl in overcast conditions on an easy-paced wicket that had just enough to keep the seam-and-swing bowlers interested, India struggled to discomfit England’s openers. (Source: The Hindu)

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